Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth…

what's a threshold anyway, is it like a door mat

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: threshold · What happens: be · To what, where: threshold

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1232 «Norse Tales, The Youth and the Hill-Folk, part 33: a youth is left alone on an island and a strange girl marries him» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 threshold	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 threshold	det
4	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 threshold	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 what	nsubj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 mat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mat	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mat	compound
12	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a threshold					like a door mat	tree rules
2	is a	present		a threshold				anyway property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

a heavy piece of stone placed under the doorway that people must step over when entering a house

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piece	amod
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doorway	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 doorway	amod
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 doorway	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doorway	det
9	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 step	nsubj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 step	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 step	aux
13	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 doorway	acl:relcl
14	over	over	ADP	_	13 step	compound:prt
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 entering	advmod
16	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 step	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 entering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	place	participle			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
2	step over	must	the placed doorway		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enter	gerund	the placed doorway not said here	a house	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination

Option 2

the wood bar at the bottom of a door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bar	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bar	compound
3	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bar	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottom	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the floor board in front of the entrance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 board	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 board	compound
3	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 board	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 entrance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 entrance	det
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the bit of wood you step over at a door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 step	obl:unmarked
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wood	case
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 step	nsubj
6	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 step	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step over	present	you	the bit of wood		a door		over property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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